There is an element of drag culture in Gaignard's practice, both in the act of performing femininity and the kitschy style in which the performance is executed.
Though current events have changed the context in which the performance takes place, the piece itself has not changed much since its inception.
For them, location is never just a gimmick, but part of an organic process in which the performance and its surroundings play off each other.
During this Rambert Event the audience move freely between the two studios in which the performance unfolds, and often we're standing just inches from dancers.
Robertson conducts it in a "discovery concert," in which the performance is preceded by a multimedia presentation outlining the work's fascinating genesis.
But during 1999 and early this year, the market, especially the Nasdaq, increasingly became a kind of casino, a speculative frenzy in which the performance of many stocks seemed almost entirely divorced from the reality of the companies behind them.
And then there is Michelle Ellsworth's "Pythagodress," in which the performance artist dons a "pentagonal and 150 pound" robe that "literally and fashionably solves problems and provides safety, art, and peace through materialism".
Different videos in which the performance artist Hannah Wilke exhaustively documented the years preceding her death from cancer (1990-93) are presented here in chronological order on a wall-mounted grid of 16 monitors.
For Stockhausen gives each player his own helicopter and pilot, and directs them to be flown around the city in which the performance is taking place while their electronically modified instruments transmit their playing, fully notated, to the ground metronomic click-tracks heard over headphones are used to keep the four players precisely co-ordinated.
Without Ofsted, would heads be asking teachers to mark the same piece of work 15 times to show progress or narrow the curriculum so much that whole departments of staff are no longer needed?" The headteachers' most radical idea was for the introduction of "locality" targets, in which the performance of all pupils in an area would become the collective responsibility of every school.
Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), in which the performance artist and cellist Charlotte Moorman played the cello topless with two small video-playing TV monitors attached to her chest, illustrates video art's long-standing ties to performance (see also performance art), as well as its often avant-garde nature.
